There is an argument for making it permanent in that daylight savings is in effect most of the year. There is also an argument for the opposite, which is that Arizona and Hawaii do not observe Daylight Saving Time (DST). The US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the US Virgin Islands also do not observe DST. So you'd be opting into permanently being an hour off from these regions if they are normally the same timezone. It's messy imo.

Not to mention people don't actually realize that say Eastern Standard Time (EST, UTC-5) is always EST and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC-4) is something totally different and what is in effect during daylight savings time, which is really going to lead to people claiming they're on EST and being wrong 100% of the time (LOL =)

Why not use the standard time and adjust your work/life schedule around that?

This assumes the watermark is a standard image. what if it was instead a qr code of a short encryption key that we change throughout the day/week/whatever interval we decide? I don't think you can machine learn away encryption.

Sorry, but I don't follow. Why would you get ads? The only thing I get on mine are the usual text message spam but that's the same on either.

scientists are not government agencies. and are working VERY hard to find life.

The reality is that we can only see stars with very big planets and we monitor them over the course of days to look for dimming over the course of a year like our orbit is.

These stars only give us one pixel of data with which to infer this kind of info from.

There probably is life out there but that doesn't mean we have the technology to find it. yet.

If it is aliens the fact that we consider them hostile and shoot on sight says quite a lot about us I think. We definitely are not the federation.

I have always wondered if the electric motors could be properly shielded to not interfere with AM radio? How extensive would this need to be and are there any efficiency drawbacks to doing so?
I, personally, have had no use for AM radio.. so I am not affected by its absence in my car.. but is this a fixable problem?

I don't think the word Bully means what you think it means.

The bully here is Russia invading a sovereign nation and taking its land and resources for its own. Think the bully who sits at the lunch table and eats your food.

Typically the guy standing up for the one being picked on is not the Bully. That's the US in this case

For Firefox I like to create searchable bookmark links, a feature that chrome seems to have removed at some point.
https://xxx.atlassian.net/brow...{s}
save as jira
in the address bar type:
jira Ab-123

results in https://xxx.atlassian.net/brow...

it's also pretty handy for other websites where the id is something you know and can fill in the address bar

There is a vice documentary called something like a country divided. It is about the republican party becoming obstructionists during obama's presidency where they stopped voting to vote on a bill.

One of the striking things in that documentary is they interviewed a republican in charge of redistricting. he said something to the effect that he thinks its unfortunate that his jerrymandering resulted in hyper partisanship and no more compromise. Does he regret it? No - because he thinks republicans are better at governing and thus even with the hyper partisanship wants them to do so.

so fuck the rest of us i guess lol..

honestly, i hear trumpers talk about how the Keystone XL pipeline being cancelled means gas prices go up, but the oil was from canada and being refined in the gulf coast right? Therefore it's bidens fault gas prices are higher. but how exactly would that affect our gas prices? by how much? Surely there must be some concrete numbers to go by instead of idle politically biased speculation..

Though I am happy to see the electrification of transportation. That is likely to make us more energy independent in the long run as our power supply is local and, thanks to the inflation reduction act, our battery supply and refining is being made USA based. Reduced demand and reduced supply go hand in hand so we aren't guaranteed to get lower gas prices but it's a possibility at least, lest they quicken the transformation to electric.

how much is oil per barrel now and how does that compare to gas prices?
88.20 per barrel currently. we should be seeing 3.10 average gas prices. not 4 or 5

https://www.macrotrends.net/25...
there's quite a big delta that there didn't used to be. are you propsing that this is bidens problem? that started in 2012

Apple says they don't have enough interest from apple users to support RCS. So let's flood them with the feature request to do so.
https://www.apple.com/feedback...

Let's go Biden!

here in phoenix az we have tons of high capacity apartments being built. they are 4 or 5 stories high and pretty densely packed. The problem is they are premium apartments and quite expensive.

Here's one: https://www.curveatmelrose.com...
BEDROOM: Studio
BATHROOM: 1
SQ. FEET: 694
DEPOSIT: $200.00
FROM: $1,699.00

So these new "supply" of properties do nothing to lower prices because they themselves are ridiculous.

My old apartment no longer lists prices and is looking to sell the property apparently:
https://forestparkphoenix.com/
but when I lived there our 1br 700 sq ft apartment was going for 1300 or so. We paid less having lived there for 10 years.

Matter use a local hub to do the work of orchestrating so it should be local provided you have a matter hub.